Gert Robijns
Gert Robijns’ works confront the audience with a form of “super-reality”, a parallel universe in competition with our own reality. This parallel world seems to appear after a kind of minimal “shift”, and Robijns induces the deviation from the norm by placing particular emphasis on images, sounds or objects as individual units. Reality is not […]
Lisi Raskin
Viewers of Lisi Raskin’s new installation “Parallel Telegram” are half reminded of the paranoid atomic bunker architecture of the Cold War, half of the monstrous rocket silos of that epoch. It is only possible to enter Studio 4 of the Künstlerhaus through a tunnel; it captures the visitor in a dizzying world of artificial light […]
ostPunk! – too much future
For ten years, from 1979 to 1989, the Punk uproar endured in the GDR. Whilst the social deprivation suffered by British teenagers found expression in the slogan “No Future”, the socialist misery of the strictly regulated lives of young people in the GDR could be said to originate with rather too much of a future. The […]
Ahmed Motiee
Painter Ahmed Motiee, born in Iran and now living in Bremen, unfurls a kaleidoscope of stories for the viewer, who reads in the paintings as if in an opened book. Motiee’s special processing technique not only lends them haptic plasticity. It also reconciles both tradition and the present day, and political analysis and calligraphic beauty.
Montenegrin Beauty
Within the framework of the “First Cultural Festival of Serbia and Montenegro” in Germany 2005, the Künstlerhaus Bethanien is presenting the group exhibition “Montenegrin Beauty”, contemporary art from Montenegro. Twelve artists from Montenegro will display numerous works dealing with a cliché that is ubiquitous in their homeland: the beauty of the country, its natural abundance […]
Shiro Masuyama
The installation created by the Japanese artist Shiro Masuyama offers a helpful sanctuary to those of us who attend exhibition openings only reluctantly, and who would prefer to escape to a secluded life when faced with their usual pugnacious atmosphere, generated by endless attempts to make a social impression and market one’s own work in […]
Ján Mancuska
Ján Mancuska, who is representing the Czech Republic at this year’s Biennale in Venice along with two other artists, has been working for some time now by using simple, everyday objects in the tradition of Arte Povera, but combines this form with a specifically Eastern European development of conceptual art in which language acquires a […]
René Lück
René Lück is an archaeologist of collective memory. His installations expose the hidden images and symbols that have been concealed in the deepest layers of our social memory, bringing them to the centre of our attention. In such work, Lück addresses chiefly objects and depictions which are regarded as symbols of political self-determination and have […]
Tamás Komoróczky
Dr. Sample is actually the documentation of a casting competition, which analyses the phenomenon of casting shows in the entertainment media in an enigmatic way. For his video installation, the Hungarian artist Tamás Komoróczky invited thirty people to supposedly compete for parts in a financial advertising spot. All the participants had to play the same […]
Germaine Koh
Germaine Koh stages her art as a form of apparently casual, yet calculated theatre. In her hands, everyday places and objects, familiar situations and actions are transformed into astonishingly salient scenarios, and the audience must make sense of these. They are obliged to work out for themselves how the objects and actions confronting them came […]